Patty Griffin

Patty Griffin is the tenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Patty Griffin. The album was released on March 8, 2019, and follows a four-year hiatus that Griffin took while battling breast cancer following her 2015 album Servant of Love, including briefly losing her voice. Patty Griffin won the Best Folk Album at the 62nd Grammy Awards and was nominated for the Libera Awards Best Folk/Bluegrass Album. Promotion "River" was released as the album's first single on January 11, 2019. Of the song, Griffin explained "it's one of the last songs I wrote for this record. We recorded it over about a year's time. I had been spending a lot of time with this song that Leon Russell wrote and Donny Hathaway recorded in the Seventies called 'A Song for You.' I actually covered that song at a show, and I thought it would be great to have my own—which is kind of a high order. There's something about that particular song that made me feel like it's an aerial view of a moment in life. The emotion of that song inspired me. There isn't really much of a thought process beyond playing the notes, hopefully, in a fashion that can be understood," she says. "But when I sit back and I listen back to it and sing it now, I can feel this is sort of an expansive understanding of life. [...] You have this understanding of continuity that grows out of that feeling." "Where I Come From" was released as the second single on February 1, 2019.